Seems that Someone Noticed

Yesterday, I noted that the elite private schools were aggressively favoring wealthy applicants.

It appears that the US Department of Education has noticed as well:

The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s use of donor and legacy admissions preferences, a month after the Supreme Court ruled the school’s use of race-conscious preferences unconstitutional.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights confirmed on Tuesday that it launched the investigation this week in response to a separate complaint filed last month on behalf of three Massachusetts-based organizations serving communities of color. The complaint alleges that Harvard College violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by giving preference to undergraduate applicants whose relatives are university alumni or donors.

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The investigation follows the Supreme Court’s decision in June to end race-conscious policies in college admissions decisions. Shortly after the ruling, Lawyers for Civil Rights, the organization representing the three community groups, filed a complaint against Harvard, alleging that the college’s use of legacy and donor-based preferences disproportionately benefits white students. The complaint also said that these applicants are six to seven times more likely to receive admissions to Harvard compared with their counterparts who don’t have ties to donors or alumni.

“At the same time that Donor and Legacy Preferences disproportionately advantage white applicants, they systematically disadvantage students of color, including Black, Latinx, and Asian Americans,” the lawyers said in the complaint.

File this under, "F%$# around and find out," though the f%$#ers are the Supreme Court, and the Ivys and the rest of them are just collateral damage.